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Personnel, HR, unions

Superintendent hiring season is now kicking into higher gear

Matt Zalaznick -
This spring's busy hiring season is giving the next generation of superintendents their first chance to run their own districts. 

Hiring teachers? These schools of education may produce your best candidates

Matt Zalaznick -
At the top of U.S. News and World Report's best schools of education list is a tie between the world-renowned Teachers College, Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Which other schools round out the top 10?

4 superintendents are switching places as hiring surge continues

Matt Zalaznick -
T. Lamar Goree, a former Louisiana superintendent of the year, has been named the lone finalist to become the new leader of Duncanville Independent School District in Texas.

K12 turnover keeps school boards busy hiring new superintendents

Matt Zalaznick -
In New York, Superintendent Carmine Peluso is moving to the Churchville-Chili Central School District from the Rochester City School District. Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan has promoted interim leader Jazz Parks to become its next superintendent

Start a successful grow-your-own teacher program in 5 steps

Matt Zalaznick -
Turning paraprofessionals, parents, bus drivers and others into full-time educators is gaining momentum as one of the best ways to staff classrooms in an era of worsening teacher shortages.

Strategic school staffing: How to upscale 7 promising models

Matt Zalaznick -
Strategic school staffing models recognize that the K12 teaching workforce will never again look like it did in decades past, researchers say.

4 ways to compare how school climate is recovering

Matt Zalaznick -
New research shows how school leaders are faring with teacher shortages, political polarization, curriculum restrictions and their financial futures.

Fresh perspectives: The latest round of newly installed superintendents are first-timers

Matt Zalaznick -
K12 leaders are switching places but a majority of the new hires in about a dozen districts are getting their first chance at the top spot.

New group of superintendent hires reflects diversity—to a degree

Matt Zalaznick -
Administrators from underrepresented groups and women are stepping up but white men continue to represent the majority of new superintendents picked by school boards. 

Why new teachers are not prepared for today’s school climate

Lisa Micou -
Building the social-emotional competence of prospective educators and their ability to support their students should begin in college coursework. But it requires more than a “one-and-done” approach.

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